ABSTRACT Responding to debates about “the way we read now,” I propose a reparative reading of Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale: a text that, as an antisemitic child-murder narrative from the Middle Ages, offers special interpretive and ethical problems. I seek to demonstrate the usefulness of psychoanalytic concepts as uniquely capable of effecting progress in the face of aporia. My reading reveals the tale to be “about” its own ethical failure: a failure that coincides with its attempt to dispense with the figure of “the Jew,” here formulated in relation to the necessity of submitting to moral Law. Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of Klein and Freud, on Kantian ethics, and on Fackenheim’s understanding of tikkun, my reading focuses on the tale’s prologue and conclusion, as well as the link between the child’s miraculous singing and the grain that is placed in his mouth by the Virgin Mary. I also discuss the tale’s major intertexts: Psalm 8, the “Alma redemptoris mater,” and to a lesser extent the opening of Dante’s Paradiso 33.

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伦理，反犹太主义与女修道院的故事：一种修复方法

摘要在回应有关“我们现在的阅读方式”的辩论时，我建议对乔uc的《小修道院的故事》进行补充性的阅读：该文本作为中世纪的反犹太儿童谋杀叙述，提供了特殊的解释和伦理问题。我试图证明心理分析概念的独特作用，能够在面对阿片症时实现进步。我的阅读揭示了这个故事是“关于”其自身的道德失误的：这一失误与其尝试放弃“犹太人”这一图文的尝试相吻合，此处是针对顺从道德法的必要性而提出的。借鉴克莱因和弗洛伊德的精神分析理论，康德伦理学以及法肯海姆对tikkun的理解，我的阅读重点是该故事的序言和结论，以及孩子奇迹般的歌唱与圣母玛利亚在他嘴里撒下的谷物之间的联系。我还将讨论该故事的主要内容：诗篇8，“母校”，但在较小的范围内，但丁的Paradiso 33开幕。